GLM-5 vs GPT-5.5

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	GLM-5 Zhipu AI's MIT-licensed 744B-parameter MoE model targeting complex systems engineering and agentic tasks.	GPT-5.5 OpenAI's flagship frontier model, positioned as a new class of intelligence for coding and professional work.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	open source	commercial
Pricing	free	usage
Strengths	+ MIT-licensed open weights + Designed specifically for agentic and tool-use workloads + Sparse attention architecture reduces long-context serving cost + 40B active parameters keep inference cost moderate for its class	+ OpenAI's recommended model for complex reasoning and coding + 1M-token context window with up to 128K output tokens + Generally available via the OpenAI API with listed pricing of $5 input / $30 output per million tokens
Tradeoffs	− 744B total parameters still demand multi-GPU infrastructure to self-host − Smaller first-party API ecosystem than DeepSeek or Alibaba	− Most expensive tier in OpenAI's lineup; GPT-5.4 is positioned as the more affordable option for similar work − API-only commercial model; no open weights
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